Burmese language

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Burmese
Myanmar language
မြန်မာ
Pronunciation	IPA: [mjəmà] [mjəmà ]
Native to	Myanmar, Bangladesh (Chittagong Hill Tracts), India (Tripura), China (Yunnan), Thailand (Mae Hong Son and Tak)
Region	Myanmar
Ethnicity	Barma people
Era	Burmesee25 Second language: 10 million (no date)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman?) Lolo-Burmese Burmish Burmese
Early forms	Old Burmese Middle Burmese
Writing system	Mon–Burmese (Burmese alphabet) Burmese Braille
Official status
Official language in	Myanmar Southeast Asia
Regulated by	Myanmar Language Commission
Language codes
ISO 639-1	my
ISO 639-2	bur (B) mya (T)
ISO 639-3	Variously: mya int tco rki rmz Tay
Glottolog	nucl1310
Linguasphere	77-AAA-a
Areas where Burmese is spoken (in dark blue those areas where it is more widely spoken).(The map does not indicate where the language is majority or minority.)
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Burmese (in Burmese ba-ma-sa, pronounced /baa-MAA-saa/) is a language spoken in Myanmar (also known as Burma). Burmese is a Sino-Tibetan language, meaning that is close to Chinese and Tibetan.

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